About Me
Senior Software Engineer
Contact Information
- Location: Austin, TX, US
- Email: me@desertthunder.dev
- Phone: (512) 666-1737
- Website: desertthunder.dev
Skills & Expertise
Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, SQL, Rust, Dart
Technologies
Django, React, React Native, Flutter, Svelte, Vue, Rails, Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Postgres
Professional Interests
Linux, Software Architecture, R, F#, OCaml, Mobile Development, Solid.js, Compilers
Professional Experience
Stormlight Labs
Founder and Lead Software Engineer
2024 – Present
- Lead Engineer of an open-source focused startup, architecting scalable systems and leading development from concept to production.
- Translated complex technical and product requirements into intuitive, performant, and maintainable software solutions grounded in research and user feedback
- Developed and optimized multi-platform applications and open-source libraries using Svelte, Rust, Go, and Flutter, applying modern software design patterns, concurrency models, and profiling for high reliability and performance
Edlink
Senior Software Engineer
May 2023 – Jul 2024
- Technical lead and project manager for Flow, a data pipeline connecting LMS to SIS providers for schools.
- Adapted new data model to the API, as well as connectors for new integrations
- Built and designed novel system architecture around PubSub and BigQuery, and Cloud functions
- Ran production data workloads on GCP using Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Kubernetes, Redis, and Postgres to move school roster data reliably
- NestJS (with TypeScript) and Postgres in a Kubernetes cluster on GCP with Redis. Dashboard built with Vue
CampusOptics
Software Engineer
Mar 2022 – Mar 2023
- Independently gathered requirements from customers and management to develop new features for a higher education Environmental Health and Safety SaaS.
- Built features for a React Native application while adding endpoints to the internal API
- Shipped Rails and Sidekiq services on AWS ECS, tuning container tasks, background jobs, and Postgres-backed workflows for campus safety teams
- Complete Stack: Redis for Sidekiq, Ruby on Rails monolith, and Postgres deployed to AWS Elastic Container Service
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Software Engineer
Oct 2019 – Mar 2022
- Architected the Frontera User Portal, the first implementation of the Core Experience Portal v2.
- Built with React, Django, and Postgres
- Developed SEO optimization strategy and publication pipeline update on DesignSafe-CI
- Advocated for and improved internal testing practices and implemented Pytest for Core V2
Education
Master of Science, Computer Science
Bachelor of Science, Microbiology
Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry
Projects
- Deployed a local-first SvelteKit application using PGlite and Drizzle, achieving sub-100 ms offline UX with deterministic data consistency
- Designed and implemented a premium sync engine with queued operations, SHA-256 diffing, and a network-aware worker
- Unified observability across web and worker contexts via session-scoped & GDPR compliant telemetry
- Built a Rust compiler pipeline that parses Gleam with tree-sitter, owns its AST, resolves names, type checks a supported subset, lowers to core IR, and emits deterministic WebAssembly
- Implemented support for scalar values, managed runtime values, pattern matching, closures, selected standard library modules, host imports, and whole-project linked output
- Validated compiler behavior with source-span diagnostics, optional WAT rendering, and Wasmtime tests for scalar and managed-value exports
- Built an Elixir/Phoenix PDS with account, repository, blob, access, security, migration, sequencer, and firehose operator tooling
- Implemented local development storage backed by SQLite databases and configurable blob limits, hostname, public URL, DID method, and crawler settings
- Maintained admin status and compatibility tooling for AT Protocol endpoint coverage, plus built-in documentation, changelog, and development email previews
- Architected Rust-based LSP implementation with Hindley-Milner type inference engine
- Implemented comprehensive code intelligence including real-time diagnostics and type narrowing via control flow analysis
- Built refactoring suite with workspace-wide renaming validation and automated quick fixes
- Designed incremental analysis architecture with multi-layer caching supporting VS Code, Zed, Neovim, and Helix
- Built Flutter/Dart mobile client for iOS and Android with Material 3 design
- Implemented AT Protocol features including timelines, feeds, post composition, moderation tools, and account switching
- Designed Drift-backed local cache with offline-aware screens, drafts, saved posts, and semantic search
- Built Zig Markdown engine with AST-first and pull-event APIs for renderers, formatters, and low-allocation integrations
- Implemented multi-dialect parsing with HTML rendering and URL sanitization controls
- Full CommonMark and GFM spec compliance with integrated conformance corpora
- Built Flutter/Dart browser with WebView-based text selection, highlighting, underlining, and note creation
- Implemented persistent annotations using layered W3C-inspired selectors for graceful anchoring across DOM changes
- Designed local-first state architecture with Riverpod, Drift/SQLite, go_router, and injected JavaScript bridge
- Built RESTful API with Go and PostgreSQL serving historical data from Lahman Database and Retrosheet
- Implemented advanced analytics including win probability calculations from 2,143 unique game states
- Designed trigger-maintained search vectors with GIN/trigram indexes enabling sub-millisecond queries
- Architected ETL pipeline with materialized views and comprehensive Swagger/OpenAPI documentation
- Architected terminal-native productivity system combining task management, note-taking, and media tracking
- Implemented repository pattern with SQLite persistence and Cobra CLI framework
- Built article parser with Colly and goquery for web scraping